Put a Little Drama in your Life
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine December 1993 1993 -- a roller coaster year for San Diego theater. Despite a helluva bumpy ride, everybody hung on and stayed mostly on track, though there were several detours for safe, commercial offerings rather than artistic risks. Herewith, a few memorable scenes from the theater season: Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine November 1993 "Your imagination is your own world," playwright Josefina Lopez once said. "You can do whatever you want with it. There are no rules." That's the kind of liberating advice creative young minds need. At age 17, Lopez took that advice and penned her first play. “Simply Maria, or The American Dream” Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine October 1993 "As a kid in Michigan ," says Jack O'Brien, "I had to choose between baseball and tap shoes." He chose the former. Half a century later, he doesn't have to choose; “Damn Yankees” (at the Old Globe Theatre, October 1-November 14) has both. The award-winning director wasn't the Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine September 1993 Call them slackers, posties, baby busters, generation X , twentysomethings or the 13th gen. They're 40 million strong, lackluster inheritors of the Me generation, floating in uncertainty, blank, lost, hopeless and dispossessed. As “auteur obnoxio profundo” Brett Easton Ellis put it, "we are clueless yet wizened, too unopinionated to voice concern, purposefully enigmatic and Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine August 1993 Fact is definitely stranger than fiction. A weird little story in the New York Times (May 1986) inspired playwright David Henry Hwang to write “M. Butterfly”, the Tony-Award-winning Best Play of 1988. The North Coast Repertory Theatre is the first local company to produce this brilliant, beautiful play (August 12-September 19). Read More →
Published in KPBS On Air Magazine July 1993 When he was in his thirties, Hal Holbrook never acted his age. He'd been such a success at his portrayal of snowy-haired Mark Twain that he was only asked to play characters of seventy and older. Now, at 68, he's finally grown into some of those roles. And he's taking on one of Read More →